Example sentences of "[vb past] the first woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | WENDY RUSSELL became the first woman to hole in one twice during a top-class event yesterday when she sank two tee-shots in the opening round of the British Women 's Seniors ' Championship at Wrexham . |
| 2 | Ellen Schneider-Lenne became the first woman on the board of Morgan Grenfell in its 151-year history , thanks to its takeover by Deutsche Bank . |
| 3 | Narrowly victorious in a mudslinging campaign , Mrs Richards — a divorced mother of four — became the first woman to hold the office since 1935 . |
| 4 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 5 | A Left-winger and a staunch campaigner against nuclear weapons , she became the first woman chairman of the Tribune Group . |
| 6 | Lady Astor became the first woman to be elected a member of parliament in 1919 , and Sir Herbert Austin , a major car manufacturer , was elected as the member of parliament for King 's Norton . |
| 7 | This was given by Mrs Jean Mellonie , Jean Farrow as she was in 1939 when , aged nineteen and at her third attempt , she became the first woman ever to win the race and in record time despite rain and hail . |
| 8 | ON THIS DAY : In 1919 , Lady Astor became the first woman MP to take her seat in the Commons . |
| 9 | Anthea became the first woman jockey to beat the male professionals over the Grand National fences on J J Henry , who is now the Beaumont stable hack . |
| 10 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 11 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |
| 12 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 13 | She failed to complete the course , and it was not until 1982 that Geraldine Rees , riding Cheers , became the first woman to finish the race . |
| 14 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 15 | In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country 's most populous state . |
| 16 | In a presidential election on Nov. 7 Mary Robinson , the candidate supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , became the first woman to be elected to the ( largely ceremonial ) post . |
| 17 | De Maizière was replaced as deputy leader on Sept. 23 by Angela Merkel , the ( East German ) Minister for Women and Youth Affairs in the federal government , who became the first woman in the CDU leadership . |
| 18 | In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy . |
| 19 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 20 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 21 | Mrs Elliott broke new ground when she became the first woman solicitor in the firm about 15 years ago . |
| 22 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |